DEPARTMENT: Neighborhood and Housing Services Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Ver?nica R. Soto, AICP, Director
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Accepting the Mayor's Housing Policy Task Force policy framework report to increase housing opportunities by producing new units, rehabilitating homes, preserving affordability, and protecting neighborhoods and adopting the Task Force's five housing recommended action priorities.
SUMMARY:
A Resolution accepting the Mayor's Housing Policy Task Force policy framework report to increase housing opportunities by producing new units, rehabilitating homes, preserving affordability, and protecting neighborhoods and adopting the Task Force's five housing recommended action priorities.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Mayor established the Mayor's Housing Policy Task Force (Task Force) on August 18, 2017 and appointed Lourdes Castro Ram?rez as its chair, and Jim Bailey, Maria Antonietta Berrioz?bal, Gene Dawson, Jr., and Noah Garcia as its members. The Task Force incorporated an equity assessment approach examining the history and pattern of housing development in the City of San Antonio. The Task Force's specific charge was to develop a report recommending how the City should increase housing opportunities through the development of a comprehensive and compassionate set of housing policies and strategies.
The Task Force led a public engagement process and held three public meetings, eight working meetings and created five technical working groups comprised of over 100 San Antonio residents with expertise in Protecting Neighborhoods, Removing Barriers, Creating and Coordinating Systems, Funding and Finance, and Special Populations. The Task Force's engagement efforts resulted in over 300 detailed affordable housing recommendations. The Task Force summarized the engagement process by creating the theme, "everyone should have a place to call home and housing must be decent, safe, affordable, stable, and delivere...
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